The ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate Motherboard Review: Aquantia 10GbE on Ryzen
by Gavin Bonshor on August 2, 2018 9:00 AM ESTGaming Performance
Ashes of the Singularity
Seen as the holy child of DirectX12, Ashes of the Singularity (AoTS, or just Ashes) has been the first title to actively go explore as many of DirectX12s features as it possibly can. Stardock, the developer behind the Nitrous engine which powers the game, has ensured that the real-time strategy title takes advantage of multiple cores and multiple graphics cards, in as many configurations as possible.
Rise Of The Tomb Raider
Rise of the Tomb Raider is a third-person action-adventure game that features similar gameplay found in 2013's Tomb Raider. Players control Lara Croft through various environments, battling enemies, and completing puzzle platforming sections, while using improvised weapons and gadgets in order to progress through the story.
One of the unique aspects of this benchmark is that it’s actually the average of 3 sub-benchmarks that fly through different environments, which keeps the benchmark from being too weighted towards a GPU’s performance characteristics under any one scene.
Thief
Thief has been a long-standing title in PC gamers hearts since the introduction of the very first iteration which was released back in 1998 (Thief: The Dark Project). Thief as it is simply known rebooted the long-standing series and renowned publisher Square Enix took over the task from where Eidos Interactive left off back in 2004. The game itself utilises the fluid Unreal Engine 3 engine and is known for optimised and improved destructible environments, large crowd simulation and soft body dynamics.
Total War: WARHAMMER
Not only is the Total War franchise one of the most popular real-time tactical strategy titles of all time, but Sega delve into multiple worlds such as the Roman Empire, Napoleonic era and even Attila the Hun, but more recently they nosedived into the world of Games Workshop via the WARHAMMER series. Developers Creative Assembly have used their latest RTS battle title with the much talked about DirectX 12 API so that this title can benefit from all the associated features that comes with it. The game itself is very CPU intensive and is capable of pushing any top end system to their limits.
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crotach - Friday, August 3, 2018 - link
I wonder why B350 and X370 perform so much better than the new chipset, the differences are quite substantial. Even power draw is lower, and the X370 chipset draws more power than X470!It must be all those christmas lights on the board :)
virpuain@gmail.com - Friday, August 3, 2018 - link
A beautiful piece of hardware with the worst bios support. AsRock bios support is garbage, two months ago that board was in really bad shape because of that, the X370 Taichi they have yet to released a decent bios supporting 12 nm CPUs, and there are still a crapload of issues with 14 nm cpus with that bios.Just check asrock own forums and the Taichi thread on OCN.
WasHopingForAnHonestReview - Friday, August 3, 2018 - link
My goodness. Im not sure if this comment section is all trolls or just self hating types, but wow is it annoying to read you girls cry about typos or grammar mistakes.PeachNCream - Friday, August 3, 2018 - link
It's annoying to read someone call people girls as if referring to us as female is an insult while at the same time not knowing our genders.WasHopingForAnHonestReview - Friday, August 3, 2018 - link
ExactlyTchamber - Friday, August 3, 2018 - link
You mention that none of these boards are optimized for DPC latency, yet they best most every Intel board you've listed. What kind of latency is noticeable? The last time I noticed it was in my OLD Core 2 Quad laptop.https://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph12706/dpc...
Wolfclaw - Saturday, August 4, 2018 - link
Drop the wifi and put in a couple oi USB2's for older stuff and a thunderbolt.atomicparticle - Wednesday, August 8, 2018 - link
Their hardware might be good but their bios team is just really B A D.FIY they can't even have a fix the basics like a proper "SAVE PROFILE" function that can actually save things on their now more than one year old X370 Taichi. The same board that still uses hexadecimal numbers for memory timings. The same board that doesn't have a functional clockgenerator. The same board have memory badwidth losses up to 20% if manual overclocking is in use.
I understand every company is limited on resources but AsRock is just REALLY BAD at supporting their boards.
What is worth a great motherboard with a crap bios ? AVOID ASROCK
http://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=8668&a...
https://www.overclock.net/forum/27481658-post3765....
Dug - Thursday, August 9, 2018 - link
And the things you listed should be tested under a motherboard review.atomicparticle - Thursday, August 16, 2018 - link
I was flaming them with a copypasta in their products so they would hear us because they have been ignoring us for months. Now they seem to be fixing their BIOS so there has been some progress with their bios support, if they keep it Ill stop flaming and even praise them in the future.